28th Infantry Division / Liberation of Western Europe

July 1944 - November 1944
World War II
U.S. Army
Liberation of Western Europe Series Volume 13
97 Min.
SKU: S2V13R
Price: $24.99

This DVD about the 28th Infantry Division takes place in World War II during the Fall of 1944, Europe.

On the first day of August 1944, the 28th Infantry Division, also known as "Keystone", was fighting with the XIX Corps of the U.S. First Army. The division was attacking south after the Breakout from Normandy and would hold the Westernmost edge of the Falaise Gap.

28th Infantry Division History on Film

Our Series II DVD, Liberation of Western Europe begins here and ends at the beginning of November 1944, as the 28th moves through the Hurgten Forest. The contents of this video show the action as was recorded by the 163rd, 165th and 167th Signal Photo Companies, during this historic operation. The military history footage in this video is intended to be strictly that of the 28th Infantry Division and only shows other unit footage when two or more units are intertwined. Combat Reels has researched and compiled all of this raw combat film footage, then reformatted it into the DVD format for your viewing pleasure.

28th Infantry Division DVD Highlights

Great for veterans, families, military historians and military enthusiasts, this DVD has many different scenes of 28th Infantry Division soldiers.

See 28th soldiers moving in to Percy and searching for snipers. Next see medics tend to wounded as other men live in foxholes. Watch various units fight through the hedgerows and search destroyed equipment as they push to Elboef, France. Then the liberation parades of Paris is shown, as many units of the 28th march down the Champs Elysees near the Arc de Triumph. The film closes with scenes of the 28th Fighting alongside the 5th Armored in September and troops of the 28th moving through the Hurgten Forest near Vossemack, Germany in early November 1944.

This combat film of the 28th ID contains scenes in:

Percy, France

Gathemo, France

Bourdevel, France

La Blanchardie, France

Larchamp, France

La Louverie, France

Paris, France

Evreux, France

Elboef, France

Habay la Nueve, Belgium

Vossemack, Germany

Hurgten Forest

Order your copy today and enjoy these and many more up close shots of equipment, vehicles, weapons, uniforms, helmet markings, and of the faces of the men of the 28th Infantry Division themselves on these candid movie film reels of history, presented to you on popular DVD formatted video!